Usually means: Skillfully controlling others for advantage.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word manipulative:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. manipulative: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. manipulative: Merriam-Webster
  3. manipulative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. manipulative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. manipulative: Collins English Dictionary
  6. manipulative: Vocabulary.com
  7. Manipulative, manipulative: Wordnik
  8. manipulative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. manipulative: Wiktionary
  10. Manipulative, manipulative: Dictionary.com
  11. manipulative: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Manipulative (mathematics), Manipulative (mathematics education), Manipulative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Manipulative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. manipulative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. manipulative: Rhymezone
  16. Manipulative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. manipulative: FreeDictionary.org
  18. manipulative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. manipulative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. manipulative: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Education Terms and Acronyms (No longer online)
  3. manipulative: Legal dictionary
  4. manipulative: Financial dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. manipulative: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. manipulative: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. manipulative: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. manipulative: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See manipulate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Using manipulation purposefully.
adjective:  Tending to manipulate.
adjective:  (derogatory) Reaching one's goals at the expense of other people by using them.
noun:  (mathematics) A manipulable object designed to demonstrate a mathematical concept.

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